Hawthorn tea should not be drunk on an empty stomach, and those with hyperacidity, gastritis, gastric ulcer, reflux gastritis and reflux esophagitis should not be drunk.

Hawthorn is also called hawthorn, red fruit and rouge fruit. Regular consumption of hawthorn products can obviously enhance appetite, improve sleep, maintain calcium density in blood and bones and prevent atherosclerosis. Therefore, hawthorn is called "longevity food".

Hawthorn can be made into hawthorn slices, peony bark, hawthorn cake, red jam, preserved fruit and hawthorn wine. Hawthorn slices and hawthorn peony bark are the most common and popular hawthorn products.

Little secret of nutrition

Chinese medicine believes that hawthorn tastes sweet and sour, and enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians: it has the effects of promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Indications: Meat stagnation, infantile milk stagnation, epigastric pain, hyperlipidemia, etc.

Nutrition experts pointed out that hawthorn also contains a variety of nutrients.

Vitexin: It can block the synthesis of nitrosamines and inhibit the carcinogenicity of aflatoxin. Modern medical research shows that nitrosamines and aflatoxins can induce the occurrence or aggravation of digestive tract cancer.

Triterpenoids, such as oleanolic acid and crataegin, can significantly reduce the contents of serum cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, thus effectively preventing and treating atherosclerosis; These substances can also enhance myocardial contractility, thereby increasing the blood output of the heart, dilating coronary vessels, increasing coronary blood flow and reducing myocardial oxygen consumption, thus playing a role in strengthening the heart and preventing angina pectoris.

Polyphenols: Flavonoids and polyhydroxyalkanes can block and reduce the production of free radicals, thus improving the body's immunity and playing an anti-aging and anti-cancer role.

Flavonoids: can dilate blood vessels for a long time and lower blood pressure.

Organic acid: It can stimulate appetite and promote digestion, especially for eliminating meat stagnation.

Antibacterial effect of hawthorn

Crataegus pinnatifida contains effective components that inhibit various dysentery bacilli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus anthracis, etc. Can be used for treating bacillary dysentery.

Anti-radiation effect of hawthorn

The content of pectin in hawthorn ranks first among fruits, reaching 6.4%. The latest research shows that pectin has the function of anti-radiation substance, which can take away 0 ~ half of radioactive elements (strontium, diamond, palladium, etc. ) from the body. Pectin also has adsorption and antibacterial properties, which can remove bacteria and toxins in the intestine and lock water.

Health tips

High-risk groups of digestive tract tumors, patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension and coronary heart disease, patients with dyspepsia, anorexia and gastric acid deficiency, children with cartilaginous calcium deficiency, children with iron deficiency anemia, patients with blood stasis and dysmenorrhea, and patients with enteritis are most suitable for eating hawthorn. Patients with hyperacidity and peptic ulcer, patients with spleen and stomach weakness, patients with dental diseases (such as dental caries), patients with physical weakness after illness, pregnant women, especially those with habitual abortion and threatened abortion, should eat less or not.

Even people who are suitable for eating hawthorn should pay special attention to how to eat hawthorn and avoid the following situations.

① Eat hawthorn on an empty stomach: Hawthorn contains a lot of organic acids such as fruit acid, maslinic acid and citric acid. If you eat hawthorn on an empty stomach, the amount of gastric acid will increase sharply, which will cause adverse stimulation to the gastric mucosa and make the stomach full and pantothenic. If you eat on an empty stomach, it will enhance hunger and aggravate the original stomach pain.

2 eat raw hawthorn: a lot of polyphenols contained in raw hawthorn will combine with gastric acid to form stomach stones, which are difficult to digest. Modern research shows that long-term indigestible stones can cause gastric ulcer, gastric bleeding and even gastric perforation. Therefore, raw hawthorn should be eaten as little as possible.

3 Don't brush your teeth after eating: Hawthorn has a high content of organic acids and is very corrosive to teeth. Therefore, you should not be greedy when eating hawthorn, and you should pay attention to gargling in time after eating.